OVER women.This was what local police in Mandaue City concluded to be a possible motive behind the violent feud between rival teen gangs in Barangay Alang-alang that was caught on camera on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022.Major Lean Rey Endozo, station commander of Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO) Station 1 in Barangay Centro, told reporters on Wednesday, Aug. 24, that two members of one of the two gangs that were taken into custody in a follow-up operation with the help of barangay officials.Endozo said they arrested Dodoy, 18, and Pepe, 14, in separate operations on Friday, Aug. 19, or just a few hours after the incident. Both Dodoy and Pepe (not their real names) belong to one of the two groups involved in the incident.Endozo said they had withheld Dodoy’s real name to reporters as his parents have yet to be informed of his involvement in the crime. Dodoy told police that the incident occurred because the other group was reportedly envious of them as they attracted more girls.Dodoy said he, Pepe and the rest of the group usually start hanging out along U.N. Avenue around 7 p.m. before heading back to their homes around midnight.He denied they had initiated the fight. Dodoy also denied that they were armed.Dodoy, who’s detained at the MCPO Station 1, will be charged with alarm and scandal, a violation of Article 155 of the Revised Penal Code.Pepe was turned over to the Mandaue City Social Welfare and Development Office for temporary custody.Personal grudgeEndozo said they still need to determine if the two groups had been involved in a gang war. Based on their investigation, the conflict may have been personal.The police official hopes to identify all those involved in the incident soon.A security camera installed along U.N. Avenue captured the two groups squabbling and throwing bottles at one another around 2:30 a.m. on Friday. One of them was seen with a firearm.As a result, Lt. Col. Franco Rudolf Oriol, MCPO spokesman and deputy director for operation, said they would increase police visibility, set up checkpoints and conduct patrols to locate the group members.RD Gobalani, head of Barangay Alang-alang’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, said not all of the minors are from the barangay. Some are from other barangays.